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Envelope Purse: Frog Design
Industrial/commercial design powerhouse Frog Design worked with PTS to create these prototypes of an innovative "envelope purse."
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Giant Prosthetic Snake: Cinema Line Film Co.
Some things really require more than words to describe. See an (extremely) graphical overview of this project. |
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Patio Equipment Covers: Le Soleil
PTS works with Sunbrella all the time to give rain and UV-protection to
valuable patio furniture and equipment. Le Soleil estate in Woodside, CA, is one of our valued residential clients. |
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Giant Inflatable Humanoids: Air Dancer
We built these large dancers filled with air for, well, Air Dancer, a
company that rents them out for opening day promotions and the like.
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Interior Decoration: Restaurant La Fondue
PTS made an interior tent to soften the light and provide the desired
caravan atmosphere at Restaurant La Fondue in Northern California. |
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Video-Gear Bag for Sailboard: IronWeb
Keeping video gear dry on a sailboard sounds like an impossible dream.
PTS made it come true with this waterproof gear bag for IronWeb. |
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Slash-Proof Armored Bag: Middle Eastern Potentate
How do you build a safe that can travel on an airplane? PTS used
high-tech fabrics to sew a lightweight, bullet-proof, slash-proof (and
almost needle-proof we went through a lot of equipment to get this thing
done) bag.
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Drum Bag: Steven Rice
Sewn solutions are by far the most economical way to protect valuable
musical instruments. PTS built the bag pictured above for a
professional conga player. |
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Curtain Assembly: Boeing
PTS built one of the early prototypes of the standard seal wall that you
now find between jetways and jets all over the world. This one was
designed for maintenance crews who need to close aircraft doors during
service. |
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Light-Tight Access Port: Hypervision
Hypervision has a line of semiconductor test equipment that uses light to
test channels that are getting down into the nanometer range. If you're
using light to test, you can't tolerate any ambient light at all. They
asked us to build a light-tight case for their test equipment, and we
succeeded so well they changed their entire line of cases from steel
to textile. |
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Insulated Bag: IFS Gas
PTS�s built this insulating bag to control
condensation and cushion physical impacts on a cylinder of super-cooled
gases. |
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Gas-Cylinder Blanket: LabCommerce
We built this bag using materials that were extremely difficult to
work with. The project was a success, and led to more work but it was no
cakewalk. (Detailed success story.) |
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Heat-Resistant Case: Niton
This case (for a temperature probe) had to withstand operating
temperatures of 1000 degrees Centigrade and had to restrict movement of
the sensor port to a few thousandths of an inch. PTS made it happen. |
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Thermal/Pressure Splint for Head and Torso: bioCool
Bill Elkins is a great man who had an insight one day into the positive
effects of temperature and pressure on healing. The sewn vest/hood shown
is an extremely complicated structure that brings precisely cooled water
and precisely calibrated oscillating pressure to inflamed or traumatized
parts of the body. We were proud that Bill chose to work with us. You
can see more on the astonishing effects of these devices on various
medical conditions here, and a detailed success story here. |
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Off-road Medical-Equipment Transport: City of Santa Cruz, CA
The city wanted to enable Emergency Medical Technicians to take heavy
medical equipment into its sometimes-mountainous parklands. PTS started
with a standard bike cart and upgraded every part of it. |
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Low-Earth-Orbit Jellyfish Aquarium: NASA
How do you test the effects of zero-gravity on ctenophores? You put them
in a sewn solution from PTS and send them up in the space shuttle. We
don't know how the jellyfish reacted to zero-gravity but we know they
never got dry. |
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Very Large Dish Antennae Covers: Ford Aerospace
Ford Aerospace required protective covers for their early generation
satellite dishes. They needed to keep out rain, dust, and other
environmental hazards while allowing unhindered microwave transmission.
Molded plastic would have worked; but rugged textiles did the job and were far more cost-effective. |
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Missile Cover: Lockheed Martin
When Lockheed wants a missile cover, they want more than a piece of
canvas. PTS satisfied an extremely rigid spec sheet on this project. |
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Water-Resistant Cover: NASA
The Mars Rover was built to withstand every harsh condition you can
imagine except rain. NASA needed a complex cover to protect it during
its field-trials in Hawaii. They came to PTS, and we built something to
keep the little guy dry. |
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Inspection Sled: Lockheed Martin
This is a sewn solution based on a rigid core with extremely precise
tolerances and an absolute requirement for complete coverage. We had no
trouble meeting these demands. |
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War Games Vest: SRI International
How do you give clothing a sense of direction? PTS helped SRI
International answer that question with this custom vest, which includes
an embedded GPS capability and batteries to power it through extended
Urban Warfare maneuvers. |
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Ballast Bags: "Pyewacket"
Roy Disney's elite "Pyewacket" campaign has dominated the maxi ocean racing circuit for years. They came to PTS for a liquid-ballast solution to stiffen the giant turbosled - as if they weren't beating their opponents badly enough already. |
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